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Originally Posted by Paul
Plenty of people were against any such move as well.
The fact is that ordering a lockdown was (quite rightly) a last resort, and not something to just jump into lightly.
They could never win anyway ;
Do it too early, one set blame you for being too soon.
Wait a bit and another set blame you for taking to long.
There will always be people who blame "the government", whatever they do.
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The other point here is that when it was ordered people could see it was necessary because the extra week showed for sure we were on the same path as Spain and Italy and also that this meant there was serious risk the NHS would end up overwhelmed, but that there was still time to stop it.
A week or so earlier, there perhaps wasn't the case numbers to show this was definitely the case. And some people may well have been reluctant to lock down (it's still possible for this even with businesses closed, they can meet up elsewhere) if the stats showed only 500 people or something had the virus (even though the actual figure was probably many times more).